Blair Brown is a theater, film, and television actress. She won the 2000 Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Copenhagen. She played Nina Sharp in the television series Fringe.

Susan Cheever is the author of E.E. Cummings: A Life, just published by Alfred A. Knopf. She is also the author of fourteen books—among them Louisa May Alcott, American Bloomsbury, Home Before Dark, and Looking for Work. A Guggenheim fellow and a member of the Yaddo Corporation, she currently teaches at the MFA programs at Bennington College and The New School. She lives in New York City.

Billy Collins is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems; Horoscopes for the Dead; Ballistics; and Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems. He served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003.

Nancy Milford is the author of Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Zelda: A Biography. She has been an Annenberg Fellow at Brown University, a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, and has received Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships.

Thursday, March 6, 2014
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Bruno Walter Auditorium

Eduardo C. Corral reads "Monologue of a Vulture's Shadow" on November 8th, 2011 as part of Latino/a Poetry Now.
Co-sponsored by Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Poetry Society of America, and the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.

Rosa Alcalá reads her poem "Autobiography" on November 8th, 2011 as part of Latino/a Poetry Now.
Co-sponsored by Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Poetry Society of America, and the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.

Aracelis Girmay reads "Kingdom Animalia" on November 8th, 2011 as part of Latino/a Poetry Now.
Co-sponsored by Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Poetry Society of America, and the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Poetry Society of America, and the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.

After the tragedy on September 11th, 2001, the New York City literary community sponsored a now historic reading at the Great Hall at Cooper Union, introduced by Alice Quinn and featuring in Part 1 readings by Billy Collins, Alastair Reid, Michael Cunningham, Eve Ensler, Jorie Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Stanley Kunitz.

After the tragedy on September 11th, 2001, the New York City literary community sponsored a now historic reading at the Great Hall at Cooper Union, introduced by Alice Quinn and featuring in Part 2 readings by Robert Pinksy, Sapphire, Vijay Seshadri, Anna Deavere Smith, Susan Sontag, and C. K. Williams.